Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Carcharhinidae
Parent taxon: Carcharhinidae according to A. Noubhani and H. Cappetta 1997
See also Landau et al. 2025
Sister taxa: Alopiopsis, Aprionodon, Archaeogaleus, Carcharhinus, Danogaleus, Eogaleus, Galeocerdo, Glyphis, Hypoprion, Isogomphodon, Kruckowlamna, Lamiopsis, Loxodon, Misrichthys, Nasolamia, Negaprion, Physodon, Prionace, Pseudabdounia, Rhizoprionodon, Scoliodontinae, Sphyrna, Tingaleus, Triaenodon
Subtaxa: Carcharhinini Rhizoprionodontini Triaenodontini
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Eocene of Angola (3 collections), Antarctica (1), Argentina (2), Belgium (3), Chile (1), Egypt (30), France (12), Jordan (1), Morocco (9), the Netherlands (3), the Russian Federation (3), Senegal (1), Spain (1), Togo (1), Ukraine (3), the United Kingdom (14), United States (36: Alabama, Arkansas, California, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia), Uzbekistan (3), Western Sahara (3)
• Paleocene of Algeria (1), France (4), Morocco (7), Togo (1), United States (1: Mississippi)
Total: 144 collections including 198 occurrences